We are always hearing the right-wing conservatives talking about the “Gay Agenda” while they are pushing their agenda. This is almost funny if it didn’t hurt so much.
REVEALED: THE POWERFUL LOBBY GROUP BEHIND NEW TRANSGENDER CHARACTERS IN EASTENDERS AND HOLLYOAKSOur little secret agenda… to be treated just as anyone else is treated, to be able to have a job and a roof over our heads. Such radical ideas.
Breitbart
By Liam Deacon
11 Oct 2015
Channel 4 has revealed a transgender schoolteacher will feature in the soap opera Hollyoaks, just two days after the BBC announced they would introduce a transgender character into their flagship drama Eastenders.
A few weeks before, the BBC launched the world’s first sitcom focused on a transgender love story. Now, it has been revealed that a powerful transgender lobby group is behind each of the developments.
The announcement that male-to-female transgender actress Annie Wallace would play a transgender teacher in the popular drama Holyoaks was made by transgender journalist Paris Lees in a Guardian column on Friday.
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Lees [a transgender journalist in the Guardian] credits the recent proliferation of transgender characters and commentators in popular culture and the mainstream media to the All About Trans lobby group; “a project to connect media professionals with young trans people in informal settings,” which she works with. She writes:
“Although we never go in with an agenda for creative outcomes, if you put people with stories in the same room as writers, filmmakers and journalists, it’s inevitable.
“Over the past few years All About Trans and our team of volunteers have met with the makers of Hollyoaks, Emmerdale, EastEnders and the BBC’s comedy department, to name a few.
“The explosion in the representation of trans people on your screens this autumn is no coincidence but, rather, the results of a determined campaign to see better media portrayals of trans people in the British media.”
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